Bigger is NOT Better 1. Pulchritude does not extend below the surface of the dermis. 2. A feathered creature clasped firmly in the manual members is equal in value to a brace in the bosky growth. 3. It is not proper for mendicants to be indicatrous of preference. 4. Every article which coruscates is not fashioned from aureate metal. 5. Compute not your immature gallinaceans prior to their completed production cycle. 6. It is fruitless to become lachrymose because of scattered lacteal fluid.

Bigger is NOT Better Con’t 7. Liquid relish for the female anserine fowl is the prescribed condiment for the male as well. 8. Tenants of vitreous abodes ought not to hurl lithoidal fragments. 9. Precipitancy creates prodigality.

Effective Writing Dr. Lejk ITCS 3688 21 September 2018

Thesis - A proposition, as one advanced by a candidate for an academic degree, that is maintained by argument; a hypothetical proposition.

Writing a Paper ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ Need for the Document Information Gathering ↓ Audience Analysis ↓ Purpose Analysis ↓ Outline ↓ Draft ↓ Edit & Revise

Characteristics of Good Documents 1. Meets the audience’s needs 2. Good organization 3. Humor 4. Jargon 5. Readability

The Audience Definition System 1. Defining who the readers are 2. Defining what the readers know 3. Defining what the readers need to know 4. Defining what the readers will do with the information provided

Writing Style Style is an editing phase problem Style enhances and makes communication more accessible Style is a result of sentence structure & word choice

Four Basic Sentence Structures 1. Subject – verb - The programmer quit. s v 2. Subject – verb – object - The programmer kicked the terminal. s v o

Four Basic Sentence Structures Con’t 3. Subject – linking verb – complement - The programmer felt sick. S LV C 4. Subject – verb – indirect object – direct object The programmer gave the engineer a headache. S V IO DO

Modify Simple Sentence in Three Ways 1. Left branching, or before the main part of the sentence. 2. Right branching, or after the main part of the sentence. 3. Mid-branching, or amid the main parts of the sentence.

Examples 1. When we add to this basic structure ways to modify words and sentences, the possibilities become almost inexhaustible. 2. Writers should vary sentence structure, allowing readers the opportunity to pause, digest what they have read, and go on. 3. Writers, if the are wise and experienced, vary sentence structure.